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up a dramatic night and early morning on capitol hill. >> reporter: out took 14 failed votes, intense negotiations to flip more than a dozen holdouts in a final tally that took place well after mid might. it ended with speaker mccarthy being handed the gavel. he was met with a standing to ovation. >> from the great state of california and the next speaker of the 118th congress, kevin mccarthy. [cheers and applause] >> that was easy, huh? [laughter] i never thought we'd get up here. ing. >> reporter: speaker mccarthy squeezed by with 216 votes, 212 democrats backed congressman hakeem ...

♪ ♪ the u.s. house of representatives still without a speaker after ten votes. good evening, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. this is a special edition of the "the situation room." >> good evening, wolf. i'm erin burnett, tempers and frustration mounting, if you can say that, possibly at a peak. the last time the race for speaker has gone on this long was more than 160 years ago. here we are tonight, wolf. >> it's amazing what's going on. what's taking place is truly stunning. 21 republicans declining...

plus we will speak with the new secretary of transportation pete buttigieg live in this show in a bit. but, first, breaking tonight, just moments ago it has been more than 100 years since we have seen this moment on capitol hill. more than nine ballots for speaker of the house and just now after a tenth vote has just wrapped up. we still don't have a house speaker. the growing question now is who will blink first? we're in the third day day of the republican battle over this job. former minority leader kevin mccarthy still does not have enough support to get to the magic number and t...

are in pennsylvania, aishah hasnie in georgia and alexis mcadams is following the new york governor's race. first to rich edson live for us in pittsburgh. rich. >> reporter: good evening, jon. well, i guess western pennsylvania's going to have to be big enough for two former prime ministers. first it was former president obama, now 40 miles away and about an hour from now you're going to get former president trump. he will be campaigning in latrobe, pennsylvania, for a number of republican candidates including dr. mehmet oz who's running for senate and doug mastriano who's running fo...

hurts working americans and help the rich and of course climate and the private jets. john kerry or whatever. what are we to make of the main focus of their screaming these days? >> they are a threat to our very democracy. >> that our democracy. >> extreme threat to our democracy. >> attacking our democracy. >> our democracy. >> our democracy. steve: republicans are threat to our democracy. really? didn't they push early voting to nullify the election campaign and protecting incumbents sending out ballots just after labor day which anything can happen in two months something wild lik...